Arc of Gunfire

Wang Zhong's side.

He was sharing a Coke with General Gorky.

After finishing a bottle, the general made a satisfied sound: "Ah ha, it's really good."

He put down the bottle and said in a teasing tone: "You know, they call me the fire captain now. I have only carried out two "fire-fighting" missions since the war started."

Wang Zhong: "It's simple. I know a reporter from the United States named Mike. Ask him to write an article for you. Soon the Yebao Daily will reprint it, and then you will have a cool name."

General Gorky: "You might as well write a song and sing about me."

Wang Zhong could only laugh. How could he know how to write songs? They were all copied. If he was asked to write a composition, the secret would be revealed immediately.

Wait a minute, it seems that I can't think about it. I can just find some carols and copy them.

Wang Zhong was thinking about which song to copy. General Gorky said: "Why are you really thinking about it? Don't be like this. I'm just kidding. You'd better sing more praises to our soldiers. I came back by train today and saw a man at the station. The old mother sent her four sons to join the army, four!”

Wang Zhong: "Are all four sons within the current age range for conscription? What a respectable mother."

General Gorky: "Maybe there is one more in the family. After all, this wave of conscription requires each family to keep at least one male. If the war situation worsens in the future, this mother may send her last child to the front line. I look at that mother eyes, I know he will do this!"

It's strange that Wang Zhong obviously didn't see the old mother with his own eyes, but he had a specific image just based on General Gorky's description, as if there was such a mother standing in the corner of the room looking at him.

Is it because he has seen too many mothers like this?

"Farewell to the Ant Woman" is a traditional military song. Is it really just a farewell to a beloved girl?

Wang Zhong mixed the vodka and Coke on the table, filled a glass for each of them, then picked up his own glass and raised it high: "To Ant's mother."

"To Ant's mother." General Gorky repeated it in a low voice, and the two clinked their glasses and drank it down in one gulp.

Then the general smacked his lips: "It's not unexpected. I thought mixing vodka and coke was definitely a bad idea."

Wang Zhong was surprised and rang the bell on the table.

Nelly opened the door and came in with a puzzled look on her face.

General Gorky: "Why did she come in with this expression?"

Wang Zhong: "Because most of the time I ring the bell just to watch Nellie heal my soul."

Nellie: "I still have three rooms to clean, so I'm very busy."

Wang Zhong: "Do you miss the days when you were an orderly on the front line?"

"No, although I have less things to do on the front line, there will be artillery shells falling continuously. Instead of falling artillery shells, I choose to clean the entire floor of the room." Nellie said.

Wang Zhong: "Then next time I change to a male orderly, you can always clean the room in the back."

Nellie looked unhappy and asked with a straight face: "Do you need me to get anything?"

Wang Zhong: "Bring ice cubes, beer and lemon."

Nellie: "You still need ice in this weather?"

"Yes I want it."

"Can I use the canned lemon that just arrived for the green lemon?"

Wang Zhong: "Okay."

Nelly turned and left.

General Gorky looked surprised: "Is there a can of this thing?"

Wang Zhong: "There are also canned pineapples. Do you want to try them?"

"What?" General Gorky became even more confused.

Wang Zhong: "Pineapple, a tropical fruit."

"Don't the tropics only produce bananas?" a native of Ant, who had never been south of the Tropic of Cancer in his life, asked with a shocked expression.

Wang Zhong immediately told the general about tropical fruits, and of course he did not forget to add at the end: "This is what Crown Prince Ivan said. Where can I eat these fruits?"

"There is still such a thing." The general nodded repeatedly and believed it. After all, the royal family was extravagant and used gold poles to carry manure.

While talking, Nellie brought cans and beer over: "The beer is only made from rye, and it takes a long time to produce."

Wang Zhong: "No problem. I know a recipe. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince told me. The authentic one requires ginger beer, but I don't know what ginger beer is at all."

While he was talking, Nelly opened the can of lemons with the can opener.

General Gorky said: "My father was a shoemaker, and there was a sailor who would ask him to repair his shoes every time he came home. He said they often ate this canned lemon, saying it was a custom left over from the past to avoid septicemia."

Wang Zhong: "You still eat canned lemons to deal with sepsis?"

In the past, septicemia occurred because the voyage was too long, and vitamin supplements were necessary every one or two years.

Nowadays, they are all ships, and they can travel around the world in 80 days. There is no need to eat lemons on the ship.

General Gorky: "He said it's a habit."

Nellie: "Do you want to pour out the lemon can?"

Wang Zhong: "No, no, you go get the canned pineapple and leave it to me."

He stood up, went to the wine cabinet in the study, took out the shaker and juicer for mixing drinks, returned to the table, and started his performance.

In fact, he has never learned bartending, but he has watched a lot of short videos, just to be "handsome" one day in the future, but he never dreamed that he would be so handsome to an old man.

He put the lemons in the can into the juicer, squeezed the handle of the juicer hard, and squeezed the lemon juice into the shaker.

——Wait a minute, it seems like you need to put ice cubes first? Forget it.

Wang Zhong used a tong to pick up a few pieces of ice and threw them into the shaker, then poured in beer and vodka.

By the way, we still need to put a little love into it at the end - but the target is a man, so Wang Zhong omitted this last step.

He covered the shaker and started shaking it like the bartender in the short video.

After shaking it symbolically for more than ten seconds, Wang Zhong opened the lid and poured the wine into the cup.

Looks—well, ordinary?

General Gorky: "What is this?"

Wang Zhong: "It's called Jack Wells, a kind of wine from the west coast of the United States. Ivan told me."

Wang Zhong was extremely moved when he commemorated his good brothers in the game before, but now he uses the formula stolen from the game to commemorate his real good brothers, and Wang Zhong is very calm.

General Gorky took a sip and blinked: "It's...ok? But I'd rather drink vodka directly."

Wang Zhong also put down the shaker pot and said, "I was also on a whim. Let's toast with vodka."

At this time, Nelly came in with a can of pineapple. Through the glass bottle of the can, General Gorky stared at the jagged pineapple flesh inside: "What's going on with this yellow saw?"

Wang Zhong: "It's very sweet."

Nellie quickly opened the can: "I... don't know how to eat this thing."

"How else can you eat it?" Wang Zhong reached out and took a piece from the can and stuffed it into his mouth.

Ah, it is a delicacy that netizens from the south of Seris will eat in summer.

However, Wang Zhong’s hometown would soak it in salt water before eating it, but the canned food in Lian Chuang is a bit too sweet.

General Gorky also came for a piece and immediately praised: "It's very good. This is a fruit that grows in the tropics. Damn it, that place in the United States is really enviable. It has vast fertile land suitable for producing food, as well as petroleum and coal." Steel, and you can even eat pineapples!”

No, buddy, isn’t it inappropriate to put pineapples and coal and steel together?

General Gorky picked up another piece of pineapple.

It seems like he likes the fruit too.

Wang Zhong: "Nellie, do we still have canned pineapples here? Bring some more back to General Gorky."

Nelly nodded, and then asked curiously: "Is it delicious? Is it...sweet?"

Although Neli just asked this and there was no clue on her expression, as someone who had lived with Neli for so long, Wang Zhong immediately understood that Neli was greedy.

Wang Zhongliu had seen Nellie rinsing a Coke bottle with water before and drinking the slightly sweet sugar water. From then on, he always opened two bottles of Coke and told Nellie to take the remaining bottle and "throw it out".

Wang Zhong: "You can have a piece."

Nellie: "We have guests here."

She probably just ate it since there were no customers around.

General Gorky: "Did I interfere with your pleasant master-servant interaction?"

"No." Wang Zhong and Nieri denied it together.

General Gorky: "Sure enough, it interfered! Forget it, let's talk about it at the imperial meeting tomorrow."

Wang Zhong: "Are you leaving now?"

General Gorky: "I came in to have a drink and chat with you because we are friends. In fact, my purpose of coming was accomplished the moment I met you at the door."

Wang Zhong: "Is it for the Quick Victory Sect?"

"This is for everyone in Yebao to see. If I don't do this, a lot of people will try their best to test my attitude tonight."

General Gorky successfully avoided the defeat, and the name of the firefighter has spread in Yebao. Although it is not on par with the victorious star, many people are definitely planning to win over him.

So coming to Rokosov Manor as soon as I came back was equivalent to making my attitude clear to those who were looking forward to it.

Wang Zhong stood up: "I'll take you out."

General Gorky smiled: "You have also grasped the essence."

Wang Zhong laughed together.

At this moment, Lyudmila opened the door and came in: "Dear, I don't feel very comfortable. I'm going to the hospital for a checkup tomorrow."

Wang Zhong didn't think much about it at first: "No problem, I'll arrange a car for you. Go to bed early and drink more hot water."

Lyudmila: "You have to come too!"

Wang Zhong: "I'm very busy, uh... huh?"

He finally realized something was wrong.

Lyudmila added: "I didn't have my period this month."

General Gorky: "Congratulations. One of my motivations for fighting is to protect you girls who are about to light the flame."

Wang Zhong raised his eyebrows: "Horatius on the Bridge? I also like this poem very much."

Then he looked at Ludmila and gently touched her belly: "Is the time right? Now that something happened, it was almost the time we were conceived when we were stuck together in Shost? Then I spent so much effort teaching her What are you doing with the public food? I vomited all the venison, snake, and hedgehog meat!”

General Gorky: "Pay attention, I'm still here. Then I'll leave first. Let's celebrate at home."

After saying that, he picked up the hat and coat hanging on the coat rack.

Wang Zhong: "Wait a minute, I should still send you out."

Lyudmila: "Go, I'll wait for you to come back."

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The next day, after a doctor's examination, it was confirmed that Lyudmila was pregnant with a child. She was conceived while stationed in Shostka, and Wang Zhong ate the venison and hedgehog meat in vain.

This incident left an extraordinary ending to the ordinary month of January.

February 915 arrived quietly.